<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Yes, I see the four buttons and can search. It has a pop up that says it can't connect to the database. If I hit escape, I can see my production backend and the new local one. If I select the new local one, it eventually times out and says it can't login to the database.</div><div><br></div><div>The /etc/mythtv/config.xml is not the same as the /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml. I thought they used to be one file with a link at the other location.</div><div><br></div><div>my config.xml in the mythtv home directory is</div><div><Configuration><br> <Database><br> <PingHost>1</PingHost><br> <Host>localhost</Host><br> <UserName>mythtv</UserName><br> <Password>6sUFd5O8</Password><br> <DatabaseName>mythconverg</DatabaseName><br> <Port>3306</Port><br> </Database><br> <WakeOnLAN><br> <Enabled>0</Enabled><br> <SQLReconnectWaitTime>0</SQLReconnectWaitTime><br> <SQLConnectRetry>5</SQLConnectRetry><br> <Command>echo 'WOLsqlServerCommand not set'</Command><br> </WakeOnLAN><br> <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><UPnP><br> <UDN><br> <MediaServer>e909ec1e-cf39-4d31-b9c8-b6418865dfba</MediaServer><br> <MasterMediaServer>3963fbcc-6fc9-4bf8-8571-e4fe241b5b20</MasterMediaServer><br> </UDN><br> </UPnP></span><br></Configuration></div><div><br></div><div>The part in red is the addition not in the /etc/mythtv version of config.xml</div><div><br></div><div>Also I have noticed that mythutil has issues logging in.</div><div>jim@den-pc:~$ mythutil --scanvideos<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.034110 C mythutil version: fixes/34 [v34.0+fixes.20240218.93a3026e-0ubuntu0] <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/">www.mythtv.org</a><br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.034116 C Qt version: compile: 5.15.8, runtime: 5.15.8<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.034136 I LMDE 6 (faye) (x86_64)<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.034138 N Enabled verbose msgs: general<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.034143 N Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044896 I Setup Interrupt handler<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044899 I Setup Terminated handler<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044901 I Setup Segmentation fault handler<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044903 I Setup Aborted handler<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044905 I Setup Floating point exception handler<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044907 I Setup Illegal instruction handler<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044908 I Setup Bus error handler<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044917 I Setup Real-time signal 0 handler<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044919 I Setup Hangup handler<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044967 I Added logging to the console<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044983 N Using runtime prefix = /usr<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.044984 N Using configuration directory = /home/jim/.mythtv<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.045089 I Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.045303 I Empty LocalHostName. This is typical.<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.045310 I Using a profile name of: 'den-pc' (Usually the same as this host's name.)<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.045412 I DefaultUPnP() - UPNP Search up to 2 secs<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.528130 I DefaultUPnP() - UPNP Search up to 1 secs<br>2024-02-18 14:10:46.879524 I DefaultUPnP() - UPNP Search up to 1 secs<br>2024-02-18 14:10:48.046161 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 0, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:10:49.047899 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 1, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:10:54.054136 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 2, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:10:59.061115 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 3, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:11:04.068670 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 4, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:11:09.075300 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 5, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:11:14.081584 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 6, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:11:19.088265 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 7, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:11:24.094714 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 8, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:11:29.100907 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 9, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:11:34.107139 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.101, BE , attempt 10, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000<br>2024-02-18 14:11:39.113309 I Start up failure. host 192.168.0.101, status dbAwakeFail<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Is there a .mythtv/config.xml in the directory for user Jim? If so, it needs to be the same as the config in mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml. </div><div><br></div><div>I defer to the true experts of mythtv, but I would imagine the config.xml in /etc is what is getting used by the backend. Sounds like Jim is using a diff version. The webfrontend backend setup for database will let you know for sure which one is getting used. </div><div><br></div><div>If it is the /etc version, just link your Jim user config.xml to the /etc/ one. If not, copy the config.xml from mythtv to etc… and then link the Jim as well as mythtv user to the /etc one.</div><div><br></div><div>Also add the user Jim to the mythtv group if not there already, and make sure /etc/mythtv is owned by mythtv.mythtv</div><div><br></div><div>Regards!</div><div><br></div></body></html>